US history ch 26
Throughout World War II, in organized American labor
"wildcat" strikes were quite common
In World War II, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was
Admiral Chester Nimitz
In 1945, the first atomic explosion in history took place in
Alamogordo, New Mexico
All of the following statements regarding the Allied development of an atomic bomb during World War II are true EXCEPT
Albert Einstein was in charge of the program
After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from
Australia and New Zealand
In the 1944 elections
Democrats increased their control of the Congress
During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was
George Marshall
During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was
Italy
In August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan because
Japanese did not surrender after the first bomb was dropped
In February 1944, American naval forces won a series of victories in the Marshall Islands under the command of
Joseph Stilwell
In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by
Nazi Germany
In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of
Paris
In 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, the Allies decided they would next invade
Sicily
In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was
Soviet Union
During World War II, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the
West
In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the bracero program which
admitted contract Mexican contract laborers into the United States for a limited time
In April 1945, American and British forces halted their advance on Germany at the Elbe River
at the announcement that President Franklin Roosevelt had died
In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted
automatic payroll deductions
During World War II, organized labor in the United States
automatic union memberships for new defense plant workers
During World War II, the United States military
began to relax its practices of racial segregation
Casualties in World War II
both A and B
During World War II, American shoppers
both A and B
During World War II, Chinese Americans
both A and B
During World War II, Congress abolished the
both A and B
During World War II, the effectiveness of German U-boats was ended by the development of
both A and B
In 1945, the Japanese surrender to the United States
both A and B
In February 1945, an Allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany
both A and B
In mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included
both A and B
The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France left the Soviet Union
both A and B
The Battle of Midway in 1942
both A and B
The Battle of the Bulge
both A and B
The Smith-Connally Act of 1943
both A and B
During World War II, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created
by President Roosevelt to stop black protesters from marching on the capital
In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
create two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions
During World War II, all of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering EXCEPT the
creation of the Enigma machine for coded communications
The United States government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
during the first years of the war
During World War II, the War Production Board
favored large over small contractors
In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on
fighting in North Africa
During World War II, in the United States, all of the following societal events experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT
high school enrollment
Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman
issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or face utter devastation
All of the following statements regarding the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 are true EXCEPT
landing was made across the narrowest part of the English Channel
In 1943, the "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles
led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits
The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan
During World War II, Allied bombers targeted
neither A nor B
In regards to European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States
refused to accept large numbers of refugees
During World War II, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in
rocket-propelled bombs
Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the United States
rose ten-fold
During World War II, the labor force of the United States
saw fifteen million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces
During World War II, American Indians
saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions
During World War II, American women who worked outside the home
tended to be older than women who worked in the past
In 1942, the North African campaign against the Nazis saw
the Americans successfully regroup from a defeat at Kasserine Pass
All of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II are true EXCEPT
the United States government has always defended its actions
A significant issue in the 1944 election was
the domestic economy
The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf
the largest naval engagement in history
In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers"
there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk
During World War II, the United States military services
tolerated illicit heterosexual relationships
During World War II, the Allied development of Gee navigation system
used electronic pulses to plot course location
In the 1940s, swing music
was a new form of jazz
During World War II, the National Defense Research Committee
was headed by a scientist who was a pioneer in the development of the computer
Over the course of World War II, inflation in the United States
was much less serious a problem than during World War I
The 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima
was the costliest in the history of the United States Marines
